There are plenty of villains in Hush, there are plenty of victims too. The nine year old perspective is so innocent on the one hand, so damaged on the other hand, so naive on yet another hand and disturbing on all hands. Victims of abuse say that their lives can become frozen at the age of the abuse. The story is mostly told through the eyes of a nine year old girl. The fictional sect is in the style of the major Chassidic branches in the New York metropolitan area like Satmar, Ger, Vizhnitz and Skver. The backdrop for this story is a fictional Chasidic sect in Borough Park. This includes, inner-city communities, Catholics, Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jews. The same story, with a different backdrop can be told by many victims of abuse from almost any insular culture. Truthfully, the book is based on hundreds of stories and not just stories from the chasidic world. The anonymous author writes that the story is based on her own story. Hush is a novel about an ancillary victim of sexual abuse in a chasidic community. (You can buy the book by clicking on this link: Hush) If you stop reading now, just buy the book and read it yourself. The best determination of a good read, is whether I can put the book down. Three hours later (and several tissues later) I completed the book. I sat down with the book and began to read. It was delivered to my door on Friday afternoon.Īfter our Friday Night Dinner, I tucked my elder son into bed at 8:30 PM. Curiosity piqued, I immediately purchased the book from Amazon. Last week, my friend Heshy Fried told me about a new book called Hush. I paid for the book and received no compensation for this review. This is a review of the book Hush by Eishes Chayil (pseudonym).
My copy hasn’t come from the publisher yet, so here is Eliyahu Fink‘s review of Hush.
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